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More than 700 patients awaiting care with mental health specialists were treated last Saturday (15) during a task force held at the Acre State Hospital Foundation (Fundhacre) in Rio Branco. The action aims to reduce the long waiting line for psychiatric and psychological consultations, which currently has about 2,500 people.
About 700 people were served this weekend/Photo: Acre Amazon Network
Among the patients treated was Deuzimar Gurgel, a attendant who has been living with anxiety crises for years, but had never sought expert help. “If you talk about anxiety to people, there are people who don’t believe, who think it’s ‘freshness’. People say ‘you are crazy’. That’s what I’ve heard a lot. When I’m going to work, I have a crisis, I’m kind of untouchable, I don’t like talking, I don’t want to talk to anyone, ”he told G1. She waited for almost two years for an appointment with an expert.
Another benefited by the task force was the 66 -year -old retired Luiz Souza, diagnosed with schizophrenia at 35. Before the pandemic, he was regularly followed up with psychiatrists from Acre’s Mental Health Hospital, but ended up losing access to treatment due to the restrictions imposed by the restrictions isolation. Since then, it has renewed its revenues only in a basic health unit, with no possibility of adjustments in medication.
“From the pandemic, we could not go back to his care, which were every two months, because the medicine only gives this period. He is renewing his revenue in a post, but the doctor at the post, as he is clinical-general, makes no change in medication, and we need to change and make the right follow-up with the psychiatrist, ”explained his niece , Cleide de Souza to G1.
Fundhacre’s president, Soron Steiner, stressed that the high demand for psychiatric care reflects a growing problem in mental health. “We have research that points out that one in eight people have a kind of suffering linked to mental health. So, our goal is to work the joint efforts to attack these more robust lines where we have been waiting for patients, so that this patient is able to contact expert and that he can start his treatment in a timely manner, ”he told G1 as well.
Data from the Acre Public Prosecution Service Support and Psychosocial Care Center point out that 11 years ago the state records an increase in the number of mental diseases, a framework that was aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Acre Health Secretary Pedro Pascoal stressed the importance of the task force in the face of this scenario. “We know that in this world we live in, there is a high incidence of patients who need some kind of mental health care. We had the pandemic, the numbers are there to show that the patients had the pathologies aggravated, those who had nothing to be diagnosed with depression, anxiety, among other diseases. This action is one of the flags that aims to reduce the queues, ”he said.
